Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google
by fullstackPM on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:09AM
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Of course. Or at the very least, she herself could have trained the model on a "Senegal" dataset and make the findings public.
My only point around her feud with LeCunn is that she threw a fit because people including LeCunn pointed out that it is not necessarily a race thing, and she wanted to give it a race spin without confirming that it was actually the case.
And I am not at all commenting on all this drama around her resignation/being fired without getting a look at the contents of the two emails: the one she sent to Brain Women and the one with her demands. But I know this: if I were to issue an ultimatum to my employer, I am treading dangerous waters and should be able to digest the outcome of that, including being fired.
This would be called “research”. That is what she was hired to do at Google. For everybody of every race ethnicity orientation able status and background that would be honored to give their best effort at the opportunity to do research at google, acceptance of resignation was the right thing.